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Agriculture and Immigration 



CHAS. SCHULER, Commissioner 




THE FRUIT AND CROP PEST LAW OF LOUISIANA 

AND 

Rules and Regulations of the State Board 
of Agriculture and Immigration 



In Effect August 20, 1910. 



Ramires & Jones 

Baton Rouge, Louisiana 

1910 



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LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND 
IMMIGRATION. 



August 20, 1910. 



The General Assembly of 1910, as provided in Act No. 36, 
abolished the State Crop Pest Commission and transferred all 
demonstration, inspection and quarantine work of an entomolog- 
ical nature to the Louisiana State Board of Agriculture and Im- 
migration, giving the Board the power to make and enforce rules 
and regulations concerning fruit and crop pests. 

This pamphlet is published in order that the Fruit and Crop 
Pest Law and the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Agri- 
culture may be brought together in convenient form for ready 
reference by the farmers, fruit growers, nurserymen and trans- 
portation companies. 

All farmers and fruit growers should keep posted on the regu- 
lations of this Board in order that they may protect themselves 
against fruit tree agents and dealers who attempt to sell diseased 
and worthless trees and plants within the State. 

Transportation companies and their agents are especially re- 
quested to thoroughly familiarize themselves with these regula- 
tions in order that illegal shipments of nursery stock and plants 
may be prevented: TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES AND 
THEIR AGENTS MUST SEE THAT EVERY BOX, BUN- 
DLE, BALE OR PACKAGE OF NURSERY STOCK AC- 
CEPTED FOR SHIPMENT INTO OR WITHIN THIS 
STATE BE ACCOMPANIED BY A VALID AND UNEX- 
PIRED CERTIFICATE OF NURSERY INSPECTION. 

All communications concerning the work provided for in 
these regulations should be addressed to J. B. Garrett, Entomolo- 
gist, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ■• • : 



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THE FRUIT AND CROP PEST LAW OF LOUISIANA. 



ACT NO. 36. 
Senate Bill No. 51. By Mr. McVea. 
AN ACT 
To povide measures relative to fruit and crop pests and diseases 
to divide the work incident to said subject between the Lou 
isiana State Board of Agriculture and Immigration and the 
Experiment Stations of the Louisiana State University and 
Agricultural and Mechanical College; to delegate to the Lou 
isiana State Board of Agriculture and Immigration power 
to make rules, ordinances and regulations and providing 
penalties for the violation thereof ; and to repeal Act No. 6 
of the Extra Session of the General Assembly of 1903. 
Section One. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
State of Louisiana: That the properly and office furnishings, 
entomological literature and apparatus and all other property 
of every description now belonging to the State Crop Pest Com- 
mission of Louisiana, are hereby transferred to the Experiment 
Stations of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and 
Mechanical College for the use of the entomologists. 

Section Two. Be it' further enacted, etc., That all that portion 
of the entomological work of the Stare relating to demonstration, 
inspection and quarantine work shall be conducted by the Lou- 
isiana State Board of Agriculture and Immigration and all of 
the investigational, experimental and research work of an ento- 
mological nature shall be conducted by the Experiment Stations 
of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
ical College ; that the Entomologist of said Experiment Stations 
shall have charge and direction of the entire entomological work 
of said Experiment Stations and of the Board of Agriculture and 
Immigration; that said Entomologist shall have, his headquarters 
in Baton Rouge and he shall keep a set of books and vouchers, de- 
tailing expenses incurred in the said work, which books and 
vouchers shall be audited by the Traveling State Auditor once 
every year. 



Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Commissioner 
of Agriculture shall see that all of the rules, ordinances and reg- 
ulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration art 
faithfully executed, and shall have power and authority, during 
the intervals between the meetings of said Board, to issue all or- 
ders and to take all necessary steps, by suit or otherwise, to carry 
into effect the provisions of this Act and the enforcement of the 
rules, ordinances and regulations of the State Board of Agri- 
culture and Immigration. 

Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That said Board of 
Agriculture and Immigration shall have full and plenary power 
to deal with all crop and fruit pests and such contagious and 
infectious crop and fruit diseases as in the opinion of the En 
tomologist, may be prevented, controlled or eradicated; with 
full power to make, promulgate and enforce such rules, ordi- 
nances and regulations, and to do and perform such acts as, in 
the judgment of the Entomologist, may be necessary to control, 
eradicate or prevent the introduction, spread or dissemination of 
all injurious crop and fruit pests and diseases, and all the rules, 
ordinances and regulations of said Board shall have the force and 
effect of law so far as they conform to the general laws of the 
State and of the United States, five days after their promulgation 
in the official journal of the State. Said Board shall have au- 
thority to prohibit or regulate the shipment or bringing into this 
State of any plants, farm products or other articles of any na- 
ture or character whatsoever from any State, Territory or for- 
eign country, when in the opinion of the Entomologist such pro 
hibition or regulation is necessary. 

Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That any person, firm 
or corporation violating any of the rules, ordinances, or regula- 
tions of said Board of Agriculture and Immigration shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction there 
of, be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five ($25.00) 
Dollars, nor more than Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars or im- 
prisoned for not less than ten (10) days, nor more than sis 
months, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of 
the court having jurisdiction; that said Board of Agriculture 
and Immigration shall have power and authority to enforce it? 
rules, ordinances and regulations in any court of competent 
jurisdiction by civil, as well as criminal proceedings, and if tho 



remedy elected to be pursued be by writ of injunction, no court 
of this State shall have the right previous to a trial upon the 
merits to set aside such a writ on bond ; that it shall be the duty 
of the Attorney General and District Attorneys to represent said 
Board whenever called upon so to do ; that said Board, in the 
discharge of its duties, and in the enforcement of the powers 
herein delegated, may send for boeks and papers, administer 
oaths, hear witnesses, etc., and to that end it is made the duty 
of the various sheriffs throughout the State to serve all summons 
and other papers upon the request of said Board. 

Section 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Entomologist 
shall prepare and publish a list of dangerous crop and fruit pests, 
and infectious and contagious plant diseases, known or suspected 
to be present within the State, or which might be introduced, and 
may, at any subsequent time, am-nd said list; that said Entomol- 
ogist, with the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture, shall 
have printed from time to time bulletins containing such infor- 
mation, remedies, preventatives, etc., as he may consider u-oes- 
sary, including, also, the rules, ordinances and regulations of the 
said Board of Agriculture and Immigration, which said bulletins 
shall be distributed to all farmers and other interested person? 
in the State. When the Entomologist suspects that any pest or 
plant disease, listed by him as dangerous, exists in any part of 
the State, he shall verify such suspicion, and, if same be well- 
founded, said Entomologist shall take immediate charge of said 
infested or infected property and adopted such measures for the 
treatment pr extermination of such pest or disease as he may deem 
advisable; said Entomologist, or any of his duly authorized as- 
sistants, shall have authority to inspect any building, warehouse, 
depot or other place where property is located, or premises, nur- 
series, orchards, groves or fields suspected to be infested or infect- 
ed by any crop pest or disease, listed or bulletined as such by said 
Entomologist, and if, in his opinion it is necessary to destroy 
the property so infested or infected in order to prevent the fur- 
ther spread of said injurious crop pest or disease, he shall have 
authority to destroy said property and without compensation to 
the owner or owners of such infested or infected property. Any 
one who shall seek to prevent any inspection under the direction 
of said State Board of Agriculture and Immigration by said En- 
tomologist, or his authorized assistants, or who shall otherwise in 



terfere with the agents or employees of said Board or said En- 
tomologist while in the performance of their duties, shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction there 
of, be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five ($25.00) 
Dollars, nor more than Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars for each 
offense, or imprisoned for not less than ten (10) days nor more 
than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment ic 
the discretion of the court having jurisdiction. 

Section 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That said Entomologist 
shall prepare rules and regulations in accordance with this Act, 
which, on the approval of the Commissioner of Agriculture and 
Immigration, shall become effective, and said rules and regula- 
tions may be amended by him upon the approval of the said 
Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration. 

Section 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That all fines resulting 
from prosecutions under this Act shall be paid to the State Treas- 
urer and by him placed to the credit of said Board of Agriculture 
and Immigration to be used in carrying out the provisions of thi? 
Act. 

Section 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That Act No. 6 of the 
Extra Session of the General Assembly of 1903 is hereby re 
pealed, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. 

Approved : June 29, 1910. 



REGULATIONS OF THE LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF 
AGRICULTURE AND IMMIGRATION. 



(Approved by the Commissioner, August 11, 1910.) 



INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES DECLARED BY 

THE ENTOMOLOGIST TO BE DANGEROUSLY 

INJURIOUS. 



SECTION I. 

Be it declared, ordained and ordered, That the following in- 
sects and diseases are hereby declared to be dangerous crop and 

fruit pests: 

(a) The San Jose scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus) . 

(b) The cottony cushion scale (Icerya purckasi). 

(c) The West Indian peach scale {Aulacaspis pentagona). 

(d) The woolly aphis (Schizoneura lanigera). 

(e) The white fiy (Aleyrodes citri). 

(f) The chaff scale (Parlatoria pergandii) . 

(g) The Morelos orange fruit worm (Trypeta ludens) 
(h) The sugar-cane borer (Diatraea saccharalis) . 

(i) The Gypsy moth (Porthetria dispar). 

(j) The Brown-Tail moth (Euproctis chrysorrhoea) . 

(k) Black knot (Plowrightia morbosa) . 

(1) Wart disease of potato (Chrysophlyctis endoUatica). 

(m) Pineapple disease of sugar-cane (Thielaviopsis ethacc- 

ticus). 

(n) Crown gall. 

(o) Hairy root disease. 

(p) Peach yellows, 

(q) Peach rosette. 

(r) Pecan rosette. 



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REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE SALE AND SHIP- 
MENT OF FRUIT TREES AND OTHER 
NURSERY STOCK. 



SECTION II. 



No firm, person or corporation shall sell, ship, exchange, de- 
liver, or give away, within the State of Louisiana, any trees, 
vines, shrubs, ,buds, cuttings or plants, or parts of plants, infested 
with dangerously injurious insects or infected with dangerous 
plant diseases. 

SECTION III. 

(a) All nursery stock shipped into this State from any other 
State or country shall be prominently labeled with a certificate 
of inspection signed by the State Entomologist, or other duly 
authorized official of the State or country in which said stock 
was grown. All common carriers and their agents are hereby 
forbidden to deliver at any point in this State any shipment of 
nursery stock not labeled with a valid and unexpired certificate 
of inspection, signed either by the Entomologist of the Experi- 
ment Stations of Louisiana or by the State Entomologist or other 
duty authorized official of the State or country where such stock 
was grown. Shipments not so labeled shall be liable to confisca- 
tion upon the order of the Entomologist of the Experiment Sta- 
tions. 

(b) Transportation companies and their agents shall imme- 
diately notify the Entomologist of the Experiment Stations 
(Baton Rouge, La.) when, by oversight, negligence, or otherwise, 
any shipment of nursery stock, without a proper certificate at- 
tached, shall arrive at any station or wharf in this State, and 
such shipment of nursery stock shall be held by said transporta- 
tion company until notified by the Entomologist of the Experi- 
ment Stations what disposition should be made of said stock. 

(c) The Entomologist and his assistants shall have authority 
to inspect any shipment of nursery stock at any station or wharf 
in this State, and shall have authority to stop any nursery stock 
when in transit, for the purpose of inspecting the same, regard- 
less of whether such stock shall bear a certificate of inspection 



or not. The Entomologist shall have authority to seize, condemn 
and destroy any nursery stock infested with San Jose scale or 
other seriously injurious insect or disease, found within the con- 
fines of this State. 

SECTION IV. 

Each and every person, firm or corporation growing nursery 
stock for sale in this State shall apply to the Entomologist of 
the Experiment Stations for inspection on or before July 1st 
of each year. It shall be the duty of the Entomologist to inspect 
such nursery not later than November 1st. If upon such in- 
spection the nursery stock on the premises be found apparently 
free from the San Jose scale and other seriously injurious insects 
and plant diseases, a certificate shall be given to that effect. If 
dangerous insect pests or plant diseases are found in the nur- 
sery, or near by, the owner of the stock shall take such measures 
to eradicate the same as the Entomologist may prescribe, and a 
certificate shall not be given until the Entomologist has satisfied 
himself that all dangerous insect pests and plant diseases have 
been eradicated. A copy of said certificate, bearing the seal of 
the State Board of Agriculture and Immigration and the fac- 
simile signature of the Entomologist of the Experiment Stations, 
shall be attached to each and every box, bundle and package of 
nursery stock shipped within the State. Shipments of nursery 
stock not so labeled shall be refused for shipment by all common 
carriers and their agents, and such stock, if found in transit or 
in the possession of any common carrier by the Entomologist or 
his assistants, shall be liable to confiscation. 

SECTION V. 

No firm, person or corporation shall sell, give away, exchange 
or deliver, within this State, any trees, vines, shrubs, or plants, 
commonly known as nursery stock, without same having attached 
thereto in a prominent manner, a copy of the certificate of inspec- 
tion signed by the Entomologist of the Experiment Stations, or 
by the State Entomologist, or other duly authorized official of 
the State or country in which said nursery stock was grown. 



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SECTION VI. 



All orange, lemon, lime, sweet lime, knmqnat, tangerine, 
grape fruit trees, or other citrus plants sold or shipped into or 
within this State, or delivered within this State when shipped 
from another State or country, shall be completely defoliated. 
Shipments of such trees or plants not defoliated and intended for 
delivery within this State, when found in possession of any com- 
mon carrier, person, firm, corporation, or agent, or when found 
exposed or offered for sale, shall be subject to confiscation by 
the Entomologist or his duly authorized assistants. 

SECTION VII. 

The sale, or offering for sale within the State of any oranges, 
sweet lime, or other fruits infested with the Morelos orange fruit 
worm, is hereby forbidden. Any fruit, infested with this pest, 
found exposed for sale or in the possesson of any firm, corpora- 
tion, common carrier, dealer, agent, or person within the confines 
of this State, by the Entomologist or any of his assistants, shall 
be immediately seized and destroyed. 

section ■ VIII. 

The Entomologist of the Experiment Stations shall have 
power to require any one in the State to fumigate his trees, 
shrubs, or plants with hydrocyanic acid gas or other substance 
when, in his judgment, such treatment is necessary or advisable 
for the proper protection of the agricultural or horticultural 
interests of the State, or of anv section thereof. 



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REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THE SUGAR-CANE 

BORER, 



The following regulations pertaining to the sugar-cane borer 
were adopted by the State Crop Pest Commission of Louisiana on 
October 19, 1908, and as it is still necessary that such regulations 
be maintained, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigra- 
tion hereby orders that they remain in effect as provided for in 
Act No. 36 of the General Assembly of 1910 : 

Whereas, the Sugar-Cane Borer (Diatraca saccharalis), a 
dangerously injurious insect enemy of sugar-cane, is known to 
occur in the parishes of West Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, 
and in all parishes bordering upon the Mississippi River from 
Baton Rouge to .Quarantine, as well as in the parishes of St. Mar- 
tin, Lafayette, Acadia, Vermilion, Iberia, St. Mary, Assumption, 
Lafourche and Terrebonne, and in the southern portions of the 
parishes of Pointe Coupee and St. Landry ; and, 

Whereas, the Police Jury of Avoyelles parish has, through its 
President, requested the State Crop Pest Commission to estab- 
lish a quarantine to prevent the introduction of said cane borer 
into the parish of Avoyelles; therefore, 

Be it resolved, and hereby ordered, in accordance with the 
provisions of Act No. 6 of the Extra Session of 1903, that no 
sugar-cane shall be shipped or transported into the parish of 
Avoyelles from the following described territory : 

All that portion of the State of Louisiana south of a line 
, drawn as follows: Starting at the mouth of Natalbany river, 
on Lake Maurepas, and proceeding north on the Livingston- 
Tangipahoa parish line to St. Helena parish, thence west along 
the Livingston-St. Helena parish line to East Baton Rouge par- 
ish, thence northeast along the East Baton Rouge-St. Helena 
parish line to East Feliciana parish, thence west along the East 
Baton Rouge-East Feliciana parish line to the Mississippi River, 
thence up the Mississippi River to Raccourci Landing, thence to 
Batchelor, Pointe Coupee parish, thence in an air line to Mel- 
ville, St. Landry parish, thence southwest to Washington, thence 
northwest to Ville Platte, St. Landry parish, thence due west to 
the St. Landry-Calcasieu parish line, thence south along the par- 



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ish line. between Acadia, St. Landry and Calcasieu parishes to 
the Mermentau River, thence down the Mermentau River to the 
Gulf of Mexico. 

Steamboats -operating on the Mississippi River shall refuse 
to accept for shipment to any point in Avoyelles parish, all ship- 
ments of sugar-cane originating below Raccourci Landing on the 
west bank, or below Bayou Sara on the east bank. 

Steamboats operating on the Atchafalaya River shall refuse 
lo accept for shipment to any point in Avoyelles parish, all 
shipments of sugar-cane originating below Melville. 

The L. R. & N. Co. and the Y. & M. V. Ry. Co. shall refuse 
all shipments of sugar-cane intended for any point in Avoyelles 
parish, originating at, or south of, Angola and Slaughter, re- 
spectively. 

The T. & P. Ry. Co. shall refuse all shipments of sugar-cane 
intended for any point in Avoyelles parish, originating south of 
Batchelor on the Port Allen Branch and south of Melville on 
the main line, Louisiana. Division. 

The 0. G. & N. E. and the S. P. Ry. companies shall refuse 
all shipments of sugar-cane, intended for any point in Avoyelles 
parish, originating south of Melville and Washington, respec- 
tively. 

Violations of these regulations shall be punished as provided 
by Act No. 36 of the General Assembly of 1910. 



